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Senate Amendment 5815

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend the House amendment, S-5771, to Senate File
  1  2 2418, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate,
  1  3 as follows:
  1  4    #1.  Page 2, by striking line 6 and inserting the
  1  5 following:
  1  6    "Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  18.180A  INFORMATION
  1  7 SERVICES BOARD – MEMBERS – CHAIRPERSON – VACANCIES
  1  8 – QUORUM – COMPENSATION AND TRAVEL EXPENSES.
  1  9    1.  A state information services board is created.
  1 10 The membership shall be composed of the following:
  1 11    a.  The governor shall appoint ten members, subject
  1 12 to confirmation by the senate.  The governor shall
  1 13 appoint one member to represent higher education, one
  1 14 member who is a representative of a state agency, and
  1 15 two members to represent the private sector.  The
  1 16 appointments shall be made in a manner so that all of
  1 17 the state's congressional districts are represented
  1 18 along with the ethnic, cultural, social, and economic
  1 19 diversity of the state.  Terms of office of members
  1 20 appointed by the governor shall be three years.
  1 21    b.  The chief justice of the supreme court or a
  1 22 designee shall serve as a member to represent the
  1 23 judicial branch of government.
  1 24    c.  The director of the department of education or
  1 25 a designee shall serve as a member to represent the
  1 26 interests of kindergarten through grade twelve
  1 27 education.
  1 28    2.  Board members shall be reimbursed for actual
  1 29 and necessary expenses incurred in performance of
  1 30 their duties.  Members may also be eligible to receive
  1 31 compensation as provided in section 7E.6.
  1 32    3.  In addition to the voting members, the board
  1 33 shall include four members of the general assembly
  1 34 with not more than one member from each chamber being
  1 35 from the same political party.  The two senators shall
  1 36 be designated by the president of the senate after
  1 37 consultation with the majority and minority leaders of
  1 38 the senate.  The two representatives shall be
  1 39 designated by the speaker of the house of
  1 40 representatives after consultation with the majority
  1 41 and minority leaders of the house of representatives.
  1 42 Legislative members shall serve in an ex officio,
  1 43 nonvoting capacity.  A legislative member is eligible
  1 44 for per diem and expenses as provided in section 2.10.
  1 45    4.  The governor shall assign staffing services to
  1 46 the board which may include the staff identified by
  1 47 the director of the department of management.
  1 48    5.  The members shall select a chairperson from
  1 49 among the board members.  Vacancies shall be filled in
  1 50 the same manner that the original appointments were
  2  1 made.  A majority of the members of the board shall
  2  2 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
  2  3    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  18.180B  POWERS AND DUTIES
  2  4 OF BOARD.
  2  5    1.  The board shall have the following powers and
  2  6 duties related to information services:
  2  7    a.  To develop standards governing the acquisition
  2  8 and disposition of equipment, proprietary software and
  2  9 purchased services, and confidentiality of
  2 10 computerized data.
  2 11    b.  To purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire,
  2 12 dispose of, and maintain equipment, proprietary
  2 13 software, and purchased services, or to delegate to
  2 14 other agencies and institutions of state government,
  2 15 under appropriate standards, the authority to
  2 16 purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise acquire, dispose
  2 17 of, and maintain equipment, proprietary software, and
  2 18 purchased services.  This paragraph does not apply to
  2 19 the legislative branch.
  2 20    c.  To develop statewide or interagency technical
  2 21 policies, standards, and procedures.
  2 22    d.  To review and approve standards and common
  2 23 specifications for new or expanded telecommunications
  2 24 networks proposed by agencies, local governments,
  2 25 public postsecondary education institutions, and
  2 26 public schools with kindergarten through grade twelve.
  2 27    e.  To provide direction concerning strategic
  2 28 planning goals and objectives for the state.  The
  2 29 board shall seek input from the general assembly and
  2 30 the supreme court.
  2 31    f.  To develop and implement a process for the
  2 32 resolution of appeals by vendors concerning the
  2 33 conduct of an acquisition process by a state agency or
  2 34 the department or a customer state agency concerning
  2 35 the provision of services by the department or by
  2 36 other state agency providers.
  2 37    g.  To establish policies for the periodic review
  2 38 by the department of state agency performance which
  2 39 may include but are not limited to analysis of:
  2 40    (1)  Planning, management, control, and use of
  2 41 information services.
  2 42    (2)  Training and education.
  2 43    (3)  Project management.
  2 44    h.  To set its meeting schedules and convene at
  2 45 scheduled times, or meet at the request of a majority
  2 46 of its members, the chair, or the director.
  2 47    i.  To review and approve that portion of the
  2 48 department's budget request that provides support to
  2 49 the board.
  2 50    2.  As statewide technical standards to promote and
  3  1 facilitate electronic information sharing and access
  3  2 are an essential component of acceptable and reliable
  3  3 public access service and complement content-related
  3  4 standards designed to meet those goals, the board
  3  5 shall do all of the following:
  3  6    a.  Establish technical standards to facilitate
  3  7 electronic access to government information and
  3  8 interoperability of information systems.  Local
  3  9 governments are strongly encouraged to follow the
  3 10 standards established by the board.
  3 11    b.  Require agencies to consider electronic public
  3 12 access needs when planning new information systems or
  3 13 major upgrades of systems.
  3 14    Sec.    .  NEW SECTION.  18.180C  ADVISORY
  3 15 COMMITTEES.
  3 16    1.  The director shall appoint advisory committees
  3 17 to assist the division of information technology
  3 18 services.  Advisory committees shall include, but are
  3 19 not limited to, customer oversight committees.
  3 20    2.  Customer oversight committees shall provide the
  3 21 division with advice concerning the type, quality, and
  3 22 cost of the division's services.  The number of
  3 23 customer oversight committees and their membership
  3 24 shall be determined by the director to assure that all
  3 25 services are subject to oversight by a representative
  3 26 selection of customers.  At least annually, these
  3 27 committees shall meet to recommend, review, and
  3 28 comment on the service goals and objectives of the
  3 29 division and the budgets for operations of those
  3 30 services and the rates to be charged for those
  3 31 services.  The committees may call upon the board to
  3 32 resolve disputes between agencies and the division
  3 33 which may arise with regard to service offerings,
  3 34 budgets, or rates.
  3 35    3.  Any advisory committee created by the director
  3 36 may be convened by a majority of its members, by its
  3 37 chair, or by the director.
  3 38    Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  18.181  IOWACCESS".
  3 39    #2.  By renumbering as necessary.  
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